Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Phoenix Project - Campagnolo Record 10 Speed Shifters

I've already selected the shifters for The Phoenix Project, but today I just received my new set of Campagnolo Record 10 Speed Ergopower Shifters (Quick Shift variant). I got a outrageous deal on these ones, new in sealed box, for around $160, including all the cables and fixings:

I gotta say, Campagnolo still has that ol' black magic. And they still have the integrated brake release, which I love.

This would be a pretty big change of course - I was planning on non-aero levers & using Toshi stitch on bar wrap, which is dead sexy. But there is no way the Toshi stuff will stretch over cables - the Velo Orange stuff will, but I think that their stuff looks a little unrefined, maybe something that you'd see on a Viking's bicycle.

Beyond that, I've never had a brifter equipped road bike - I was on board with indexing on mountain bikes from day one, but I've never had the urge for road bikes. But maybe it is time to get in tune....